Every Tuesday evening we get together with other missionary couples in Moscow for Family Home Evening. This night it was -19C. We waited for a bus for about 25 minutes and then got on the "warm" bus. It was all relative.
On my birthday we went to dinner with the Moscow West Mission President and his wife. We went to the "Mafia Mall". It is a gorgeous place, but we never see any customers.
Note the size of the snowflakes.
Jack and Frances on the way to work at about 7:45 AM.
Red Square on a very cold day.
I will post another blog with more detail on Red Square.
We went inside a mall called "GUM" to get warm. The Christmas decorations were fun.
One area had Christmaa that were quite beautiful and whimsical. This was a favorite.
The children are bundled up for winter weather. The smallest ones look like walking snowmen. They are so cute.
This is looking out or our apartment window at the next buillding. We are on the top floor (10th) and the other building has 9 floors. Note the wires going from one building to another. That is how electricity, internet and all other things go from one building to another.
One day as we looked out we saw a man on the roof of the next building. He was shoveling snow from the edge. If you look carefully there is a metal rail that he could have been tethered to, but most of the time he wasn't. He stepped over wires as he went along.
When he got to the corner, he started swinging his shovel to hit the down spout to knock the ice loose. He is not tethered.
Apparently people below started yelling at him because they were bombarded by snow and ice.
He started yelling back at them and quite a discussion went on. Still no tether.
On February 6, 2010, we went to Victory Park to see the ice sculptures with three other missionary couples, Steve and Linda Rees from Payson, Utah; Devere and Arva Burton from Twin Falls, Idaho; and Jim and Susan Tadje from Kaysville, Utah.
The ice sculptures were beautiful.
It was fun playing with the ice sculptures
We had a good time sliding down a snow hill at the park. All of the others on the hill were children. Some of us don't want to grow up.
We walked over a bridge and looked down at the river. An icebreaker boat goes through periodically.
We went to a park where there were reindeer that you could ride or be pulled on a sleigh.
The day was beautiful and cold, but as the Russians say, "There is no bad weather, just bad clothing.
